The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $585 million contract to design, develop and deliver Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii (HDR-H) in Oahu, Hawaii.
HDR-H radar will counter evolving threats by optimizing the defensive capability of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. It will provide persistent precision tracking and discrimination for Hawaii’s defense.
Work will be conducted in Hawaii and Moorestown, N.J., and is expected to be completed in late 2023.
“Lockheed Martin will leverage the development of our Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) to provide the lowest risk and best value HDR-H solution to MDA, which includes open, scalable architecture for future growth,” Chandra Marshall, program director for Lockheed Martin’s Missile Defense Radars market segment, said.
LRDR completed a closed-loop track in August. A closed-loop track is the process of searching for, acquiring and tracking numerous satellites.
The LRDR design is complete and ready for production in 2019, Marshall said. LRDR is being constructed in Clear, Alaska, and will be delivered in 2020.
The system is designed to keep pace with emerging threats, Lockheed Martin said.
Lockheed Martin’s Rotary and Mission Systems unit has been awarded several Pentagon contracts. The unit generated $3.85 billion in sales during the third quarter of 2018.